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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Topeka, KS

August 6, 1996Osage County, Kansas

NWS Topeka, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 10:45 AM CDT for Osage County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 1996, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1996, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Topeka, KS
Area
Whole counties

County Osage County, KS

The radar

The Topeka radar (KTWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 39 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1996-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2020 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 1996-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2020 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTOP 061545
SVRTOP
KSC139-061630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TOPEKA KS
1045 AM CDT TUE AUG 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TOPEKA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...WESTERN OSAGE COUNTY
 
AT 1045 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF EMPORIA BETWEEN READING AND BARCLAY
MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
 
BURLINGAME AND OSAGE CITY ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST OSAGE COUNTY SOUTH OF READING
AROUND 1035AM.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM!  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
 
 
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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.